The latest Pentium II pulses five times as fast as the first Pentium, introduced in 1993.

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They recently received a big order from Intel and they will benefit from heavy promotion of Pentium II computers.

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The Pentium III is essentially a Pentium II processor, with the same 512KB off-chip secondary cache and 100-MHz system bus.

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It has to dissipate heat -- in the case of a Pentium II running at 333 megahertz, at a rate of 24 watts.

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For an Intel Pentium II, the package is a square of plastic 1.2 inches on a side and as thick as a silver dollar.

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For an Intel Pentium II, the package is a square of plastic about 30mm on a side and about as thick as a gold Krugerrand.

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By the late 1990s, he had overseen the development of his share of high-profile products, including Intel's Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium MMX processors.

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It features a durable magnesium alloy case and with a 300MHz Pentium II brain and 64MB RAM, it is as powerful and compatible as most desktop computers.

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My Pentium II 333 with a Voodoo 3 3000 set on medium detail averaged from 50 fps to 100 fps indoors and 25 fps to 60 fps outdoors.

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This game will require that you have at least a 300 MHz Pentium II, 64 MB of RAM, and a 16 bit graphics card, regardless of what Loki says.

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The corollary is that today's Pentium II and PowerPC chips will cost about 75 cents in 2008 and will find their way into your washing machine, hiking boots and toaster.

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In each case we independently installed the firewall on an otherwise unprotected Quantex QP6 350 M2X, a Pentium II-350 machine equipped with 64MB of RAM and running Windows 98 SE.

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ViaVideo's engineers used two Philips TM-1000 digital signal processors capable of handling, between them, 6 billion operations a second -- the equivalent of seven Intel Pentium II microprocessors found in top-of-the-line PCs.

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First on the list--Intel's 400-MHz Pentium II processor.

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It is plugging the multimedia power of its Pentium II processor with demonstrations of 3-D Web sites such as Virtual Arsenal - a tour of the Premier League champions' ground, the forthcoming Legal and General estate agency site which lets visitors tour homes inside and out and the Internet-enabled game Forsaken.

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